Lots more layouts completed in Jan 08

Perfectly Pink

1. Untitled, 2. "Te regalo un camino de colores", 3. "Ventana en rosa", 4. pink car, 5. art, 6. pink door in georgetown, 7. Qantas link _Plane show Nov 2007, 8. Soft, 9. Three sisters, 10. A pink dog in front of a pink gate, 11. Spirals on pink, 12. Pink Landstrasse, 13. heartfelt good wishes, 14. pink ice, 15. Pink Clouds! To all the Women in the World!, 16. vintage tea set with cupcake

LOAD layouts

I joined the LOAD class at
http://bigpicturescrapbooking.com/
earlier this month. The class started on the 1st
and we are challenged to create a layout a day.
There are daily giveaways for completing the daily LO. I'm a little behind because I didn't join until the 9th or so. Anyway, so far I've completed 8 layouts... so I'm happy about that.
Here are a few.

RED & TEAL

1. "Hidrata-me", 2. Untitled, 3. Amigurumi Turquoise Chickie Bird, 4. No. Not London. Israel, 5. Strawberry-scape, 6. "Ausencia...", 7. ocean colour scene #3, 8. Ceramic Pomegranates, 9. Untitled, 10. Aqua Givre Glass Roses, 11. Barn door latch, 12. _MG_0643, 13. wall of mirrors, 14. _MG_0643, 15. Christmas bush on blue, 16. Palau - Ocean of blue...

few more LOs (Christmas 07)

Believe
Used my Scrappy Girl Designs Dec Kit
Basic Grey's Figgy Pudding PP, Letter stickers
and ornament sticker. Along with 7 Gypsies Joy sticker and Queen & Co Felt


This next one is Christopher opening is trunk of magic on Christmas day. (Chris is my nephew)
Also used the Dec Kit from SGD.

Here we have my cute little elf, Lukas!
Again with SGD Dec Kit... used the Rhonna Farrer PPs, 7 Gypsies stickers, and Heidi swapp Chipboard letters

And last but not least! My husband's Aunt. (Barb)
Used Rhonna Farrer PP, Making Memories stickers and Misc flowers.

Christmas layouts

The boys decorated sugar cookies for Santa.
Jacob ate almost all of these! But he did leave 3 for Santa.

Used some Love Elsie PP, American Crafts thickers and other misc embellies.



Photos of the boys and Sara (neice) decorating our Gingerbread house. They had a blast decorating with all the candies ( and of course eating a bunch too)

Used a Page Map by Becky Fleck, Scenic Route PP, Tim Holtz Grungeboard (heart), some felt Ric Rak from Walmart and AC felt thickers.

This layout was done using the Dec Kit from Scrappy Girl Designs and sketch from

http://mojoholder.typepad.com/my_weblog/

BESTest Christmas gift

Our new living room furniture was just delivered!
It looks black in the photo.. but it's chocolate brown with tan piping... SO sweet!
We have one more piece that Steve will be picking up next week... it's a cool chair with a funky pattern that should look great!






Here's a photo of the whole living area.














AND here is the piece that Steve surprised me with.
It's a 6 drawer file cabinet... so pretty!

Couple of LOs

Here are a couple layouts and cards using up the
Nov Kit from Scrappy Girl Designs.








Lukas at the park.











Jacob at GG Smith's house on Thanksgiving.







And here are a few cards I've made using the kit.

Holiday stuff

I made these ornaments for our tree this year....

Happy Birthday Michael!!!!!

It was great seeing you this past weekend... The kids had a BLAST!!!

Good Reason

to not have any more children....

This is my 2 year old climbing up on the

counters to get MORE vitamins...

I thought he wanted chocolate... LOL!

I MUST

Start writing down things Lukas says... he has the biggest personality.. in such
a small little body.

Last night we sat down to eat dinner at the table and Lukas wanted some Jelly
on his toast... so I spread some grape jelly on his toast...and he decides to lick it
off rather than eat the toast.. which is really no surprise.. this kid LOVES
sugar! Anyway, he takes a few licks and looks at me and says "yum, tasty Jelly Mama"
It just made me crack up... I'm always trying to get the boys to taste new things and
I use the work tasty all the time... and it was funny to hear him us it.

Beginning to look a "little" like Christmas

This week we started decorating our home for Christmas.
Here are a few shots of what we've done so far.



Here's a shot of a part of my Santa Collection.



This is one of my favorite Santas.





Here's a quick shot of a new tradition we've started this year. These elves belonged to my mom until I requested them last year. I remember having them growing up. Well, a friend (Cami B.) did a layout last year about this tradition she learned of through a website
that sells elves that look just like this, plus a book
that tells a real cute story.
I've not read the story yet but it has something to do with the elves being magical and they will go see Santa every night until Christmas. They will tell Santa about the Children of the home they are visiting. These elves will leave every night and try to hide somewhere new each day.
I must say, Jacob LOVES this! It's the first thing he does when he comes downstairs in the AM.
He searches around until he finds the elves and then he will even tell them "Good Morning!"
We are using these elves like nobodies business! If Jacob gets out of line ... or starts whinning... we just say.. "The elves are watching!" OR "Do I need to go speak to the elves about this behavior?" It is SOOOOOO working .. for now anyway.



And this last shot.. didn't turn out so well.
BUT I think it looks pretty good in real life.
I bought this wreath last week at Target. IT has
little tiny green leaves and red berries all over..
and it's kinda rustic.... I also bought the Stockings
and hangers... I LOVE the stars!

Nov update

For Thanksgiving Steve and I took the boys to the NC mountains.
Here are a few shots ...















































THEN the day before Thanksgiving we drove to central NC (Shelby)
to visit with my Grandmothers and other family members.
We had a nice time.
So... HERE is what I'm THANKFUL FOR!!!

GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT for JANUARY!

Scrappy Girl Designs is looking for a GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT for JANUARY!

January is a time to laugh and play. Use the word "PLAY" in your layout title. Submit your PLAY layout and enter to win a Guest Design Team Spot for JANUARY! The layout can be 12X12 or 8 1/2 X 11 or a mini album and can be about anything.

Upload your layout to our gallery in the Guest DT area and check in at the message board to let us know you've submitted! Layouts must be in the GDT gallery to be entered into the contest! The Winner will receive JANUARY'S SGD Kit and be featured in our Newsletter and on our home page and design team page!!!

The winner must be able to complete multiple layouts and our mini project from our December kit as well as actively participate on our message board. Contest runs from November 21st - December 20th.

Sweetness

This is a layout I did for a sketch challenge last week and I won! Yippee!

Photos of Lukas on Halloween.

He was a Thomas the Train Engineer.

GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT

Scrappy Girl Designs is looking for a GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT for DECEMBER!

November is a time to reflect and count our blessings.
Show us what you are THANKFUL for!
Use the word "THANKFUL" in your layout title. Submit your THANKFUL layout and enter to win a Guest Design Team Spot for December! The layout can be 12X12 or 8 1/2 X 11 or a mini album and can be about anything you are THANKFUL for! Upload your layout to our gallery in the Guest DT area and check in at the message board to let us know you've submitted!

Layouts must be in the GDT gallery to be entered into the contest! The Winner will receive December's SGD Kit and be featured in our Newsletter and on our home page and design team page!!! The winner must be able to complete multiple layouts and our mini project from our December kit as well as actively participate on our message board.
Contest runs from November 1st - November 20th.

Happy Halloween, my spooks, and a few layouts

Happy Haunting everyone!

Here are my little spooks for the night:

Lukas really isn't scary at all, but Jacob is a little scary I guess! (well, at least Lukas is a frightened)

On another subject, here is another layout using the Oct Kit from

Scrappy Girl Designs! WE are looking for a Dec Guest designer

if you are interested.. come by and check out the challenge!

HERE